This month we present Dave Fulton, the veteran American comic who presents topical and dark humor like few Americans can. His comedy takes risks and is deadly smart.

Joining Dave is a man you know and love, a guy who is just as funny in English, Ismo Leikola!

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Appearing on the night

Dave Fulton (USA)
Ismo Leikola (FIN)

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

Tickets at Tiketti and Lippu, 17€/14€

Dave Fulton (USA)

Ismo Leikola

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

April 5th 20:00 Tickets 10€/8€

Our special guest this month is Bec Hill from Australia. Her acclaimed solo shows and hugely popular YouTube videos which have garnered over 100,000 views globally have gained her a cult status in both Australia and the UK, where she is now based. She also has a prolific Twitter presence, which led to her being named one of TimeOut’s Top 5 Funniest Comedians on Twitter next to the likes of Milton Jones and Steve Martin.

She has a talent for incorporating arts and crafts into her stand-up routines, creating a unique and unforgettable comedy style that she calls “paper-puppetry comedy”.

Follow Bec on Twitter at twitter.com/bechillcomedian

Tickets are 10€/8€ from Tiketti!

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Performing on the night

Bec Hill (AUS)
Anders Celin (SWE)

Stewart Johnson (USA)
Miska Kajanus

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

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Louis Zezeran and Sami Hedberg are proud to present one of the biggest nights of English Stand Up Comedy Helsinki has seen! This month at the English Night at Apollo we have the legend himself, André Wickström along with the New Zealand master of free wheeling Stand Up, Al Pitcher!

Tickets are 17€/14€ at Tiketti

André Wickström
Al Pitcher (NZ)

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

André Wickström

André is a man who needs no introduction. His comedy is witty, funny and smart. He manages to keep an integrity throughout his show and at times his calm face will have you wondering how he doesn’t lose control at how funny his own jokes are. The man has style and class and is brilliant at keeping audiences laughing line after hilarious line.

Al Pitcher (NZ)

AL PITCHER is a comedian who makes each show unique. He rises about most comedians with his crowd interaction, his audience never quite knowing where he’s leading them, but thrilled by the journey. With his unpredictable, unsystematic and upbeat live performances Al has consistently wowed audiences across the world. He is the master of improv, talking to the audience and creating a hilarious story from whatever he is given. He uses the audience in a twisted and fun way, without being mean about it.

Doors open at 19:30 and the show starts at 20:00 and runs for approximately 2 hours.

WHAT: English Comedy Club, Helsinki
WHEN: March 8th, 20:00
WHERE: Manala, Helsinki
TICKETS: 8€/10€ at Tiketti!

This month we feature two fantastic Danish comedians, Morten Sørensen and Claus Reiss!

Morten Sørensen (DK)

Claus Reiss (DK)

Also appearing on the night

Aatu Raitala
Robert Pettersson
Ferrix Hovi

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

Special Offer! In collaboration with our partners at Omena Hotels, when you buy a ticket for The English Comedy Club you will receive a code on the ticket which allows you 10% any Omena Hotel room for the night of the show. Perfect if you are coming out of town for the event! If you have a problem receiving your code email info@comedyfinland.com and we will sort it out for you.

WHAT: English Comedy Club, Helsinki
WHEN: Feb 8th, 20:00
WHERE: Manala, Helsinki
TICKETS: 8€/10€ at Tiketti! Hurry up as the night is already half sold out!

This month we feature amazing Swedish headliner, Isak Jansson!

Special Guest: Caroline Clifford (UK/GER)

Aretta Vähälä (FIN)
Miska Kajanus (FIN)
Aatu Raitala (FIN)

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

Special Offer! In collaboration with our partners at Omena Hotels, when you buy a ticket for The English Comedy Club you will receive a code on the ticket which allows you 10% any Omena Hotel room for the night of the show. Perfect if you are coming out of town for the event! If you have a problem receiving your code email info@comedyfinland.com and we will sort it out for you.

This month we have a very special guest, the best French comedian living in England Marcel Lucont. Our other guest is the fantastic Australian joke writer, Benny Boot.

Tickets are 17€/14€ + service fees and available at Lippupiste and Tiketti!

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Featuring live Stand Up comedy by

MARCEL LUCONT (FR)
BENNY BOOT (AUS)

Marcel Lucont (FR)

Flâneur, raconteur, bon-viveur, Marcel Lucont is easily the best French comedian on the UK circuit today. If you don’t believe this, just ask him yourself.

Marcel has entertained the world with his wry observations, bawdy chansons and top-class sex poetry, and is the author of the superb book “What We French Think Of You British… And Where You Are Going Wrong” (New Holland Publishers)

Winner: Amused Moose Award – Best Comedy Show – Edinburgh Fringe 2012
Nominee: Best International Show Award – New Zealand Comedy Festival 2012

“Master of the deadpan… His act is one of astounding panache” ★★★★★ AllTheFestivals

“A pitch-perfect performance… His sardonic turns of phrase are an utter joy” ★★★★ Time Out

Benny Boot (AUS)

Australian comic Benny Boot has been performing comedy in the UK for 9 years. He is considered by many comedians as a wonderful comedian to watch. Benny was a finalist in NBC’s Last Comic Standing and was invited to the Vancouver Comedy Festival in 2005. He has performed in Edinburgh as part of the Just The Tonic Showcase (2006), for the Pleasance Comedy Reserve (2007) and debuted his first solo show last year, Set Up, Punchline…Pause for Laughter (2011). Benny returned to the Fringe with his second solo show Def-Con 4 (2012). The show sold out throughout the Fringe, and Boot put on extra shows to satisfy demand. The show received a great response from his audience and critics.

Boot delivers his jokes in a unique style on variety of strange topics. His engaging persona & material keeps the laughter rolling through the entire show and is guaranteed to bring any audience undone. Benny is considered in the industry to be one of the most original and finest joke writers in the business. He stormed the Altitude Comedy Festival this March and was the one comedian, out of a line up of top acts such as Tim Minchin, Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle that everyone – audience, critics and comics – was talking about.

Hosted by:
LOUIS ZEZERAN

We have two special guests this month, Brian Mørk from Denmark and Joe Eagan from Canada.

Tickets 10€/8€ at Tiketti or the door (if available)

Brian is one of the most well known comedians in Denmark from his time hosting his own programme “The Brian Mørk Show”. Brian has a dark, sharp, witty sense of humor which we think you will love

Joe Eagan, the legend, is no stranger to Manala, he has been our special guest several times. Since then Joe has extended his infamy, starting comedy clubs all over Europe.

Appearing on the night.

Brian Mørk (DK)
Joe Eagan (CAN)
David Duff (IRE)
Toni Jyvälä (FIN)
Kimmo Wilska (FIN)

Our biggest show gets even bigger for January as we present a huge Pikkujoulu show! This month we have two great comedians, Nigel Williams from England and Christian Schulte-Loh from Germany! Oh yes a German comedian, game on!

Tickets are 17€/14€ + service fees and available at Lippupiste and Tiketti!

NIGEL WILLIAMS (UK/BE)

Belgiums ‘no holds barred’ comedian. If you like your comedy a bit rough around the edges ,you’re gonna love this guy. Nigels act is full of energy and healthy misanthropic rants, lots of improvisation and audience participation guaranteed. ‘Like a long distance sprint of laughs with no final destination’.

He was born in Bristol UK and left school at 15, worked as factory worker/ union organiser and barkeeper before taking up stand-up comedy. His first show was called ‘The Penis Monologue’ most recent show is called ‘Believe me!!’ (about religion and other fables). Nigel has won the prestigious Belgian Humos Comedy Cup in 2000 and since then has twice been voted Comedian of the year.

He has performed in Holland, England, Scotland more recently Denmark and Sweden and is best known in Belgium for the political and social content of his humor.

CHRISTIAN SCHULTE-LOH (GER)

Christian Schulte-Loh is an international stand-up act from Germany that has performed in clubs and at festivals in more than a dozen countries.

Christian regularly performs at the biggest clubs in the UK, Germany and on the European circuit. He has been called “a funny German – the only one!” (KKUNST MAGAZINE, Belgium), and THE SPECTATOR wrote about him: “one of the most subversive acts ever”.

Christian performs in three languages: English, German and Spanish. He has toured the world, won several awards (including “King Gong” at London’s Comedy Store) and regularly appears at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Host: LOUIS ZEZERAN (AUS)

The man with a plan, your host from Australia, otherwise known as “that guy who hands out the programmes”

Sami Hedberg and Louis Zezeran are proud to present two of the biggest headliners at one of the coolest comedy venues in Helsinki.

This month we are very proud to present one of the best touring comedians, Sarah Kendall from Australia

Tickets are 17€/14€ + service fees and available at Lippupiste and Tiketti!

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Featuring live Stand Up comedy by

SARAH KENDALL (AUS)
DAVE THOMPSON (UK)

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

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Sarah Kendall (AUS)

In 2004, Kendall became the first comedienne to be nominated for the Perrier Award in almost a decade. She played a major role in shattering the glass ceiling for women comics and this year did her first Edinburgh Fringe Festival outing for five years.

Inspired by the birth of her daughter, Kendall questions the kind of society in which we’re raising girls: a society where educated middle-class women are pole dancing for fitness, fairytales teaches young girls to value beauty above brains, and if you watched too much MTV, you’d think lesbians sole purpose is to dance with each other on yachts and get it on whilst rap artists pour champagne on their heads.

Political but not polemical, hilarious but not haranguing, Sarah Kendall is intelligent, considered comedy delivered by one of the most acclaimed stand-ups in the industry.

‘This is brilliant observational comedy’ The Sunday Times

‘A truly brilliant show that’s just got to be seen’ *****Chortle

Dave Thompson (UK)

Dave works continuously as a stand-up comedian, and has performed in America, The Falklands, Dubai, Oman, Abu Dhabi, and cruise ships in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Never happier than when he’s being paid to explore new places, Dave has also worked in Ireland, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Poland, Luxembourg, Austria, and Monte Carlo. Known for his one-liners and absurd persona, Dave has written material for many other comics, including Harry Hill, Ronnie Corbett, Bruce Forsyth, Jim Tavare, Ben Elton, and Stewart Lee.

Dave wore a Jim Henson lion costume in two films made in Hollywood for American TV. He was in eight episodes of Al Murray’s sitcom ‘Time Gentlemen Please’, and one episode of Ben Elton’s sitcom ‘Blessed’. Despite appearing in many other TV shows such as ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’, and featuring in eleven TV commercials, Dave is best known as the person inside the Tinky Winky costume in ‘Teletubbies’, which is still shown all over the world.

Dave used to play this guy, seriously!

Louis Zezeran (AUS)

You know him! Your host each month and the guy who comes around and brings you the programmes and speaks in an overly polite way (well overly polite for an Australian)

NOW THE ENGLISH COMEDY CLUB IS ON FRIDAY NIGHT SO IT’S AFTER WORK TIME!

Tickets are 8€/10€ at Tiketti

This month!

Adam Fields (UK/NL)
Stewart Johnson (USA)
Eric Seufert (USA)
Glenn Chasen (USA)

Host: Louis Zezeran (AUS)

Adam Fields (UK/NL)